Where would you rather be this December? Wouldn’t you love to see Badagry, the serene beach, the first storey building in Nigeria, the slave relics, the slave route, the point-of-no-return, etc?
You’d love it and remember to take lots of pictures. You’d be glad you did. 🤗🤗🤗🤗
#proudlyBadagry #proudlyBadagrian
...but the obnoxious trade in human continued in the ancient town until 1888 when the last slave ship left for Brazil."
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Prominent slaves that passed through Badagry port include Bussa of Barbados, Ali Eisami who wrote his popular account in the 18th Century and Zumbi of Brazil.
Historical and cultural evidences supporting this history can still be found in Haiti & Havana, Cuba today
#Badagry
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...had sent a letter through the Captain of the slave ship that carried him
informing their home government of his status.
Slave trade flourished in Badagry until March 8th 1852, when the #Badagry White-Cap Chiefs signed the abolition treaties with the Monarch of England
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